Vineyard Haven News

A group of Vineyard artisans have banded together for the holiday season to display their talents, crafts, art, food and handiwork in the Vineyard Holiday Gift Shop on Main Street in Vineyard Haven.

Traffic and bustle, special treats, music, and strangers nodding greetings - shopping in Vineyard Haven this time of year brings out the holiday spirit.

Housing fund executive director Ewell Hopkins. Admitting the mistakes of the past and pledging a new future of transparency in their financial affairs, leaders of the Island Affordable Housing Fund took the floor at the Vineyard Haven library on Wednesday night and faced the public over what one member of the audience called a breach of public ...

Five suspects are facing charges after the police recovered a safe stolen two years ago from a lumber yard.

Weighing requests from business owners for reduced commercial property taxes against concerns about increasing residential tax rates, Tisbury selectmen voted Tuesday night to ease their burden slightly.

We live on an Island, so obviously we love the ocean and the many endeavors that go with it.

Hospice of Martha's Vineyard has selected Denys and Marilyn Wortman as the 12th annual Spirit of the Vineyard Award winners.

Two years ago on the night of June 2 thieves broke into the office of the family owned E.C. Cottle lumberyard on Lambert's Cove Road in West Tisbury and removed a safe said to contain more than $10,000. Kristen K. Brown After two years of sleepless nights, Kristen K. Brown, 22, of Chilmark decided she could no longer bear the guilt for her role in ...

Did you see that thing in the sky? Photo illustration by Cooper Davis. On the evening of Sept.

In the 2009 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct, Kodiak Kowboy got up in the final strides to win by 3/4 length over favorite Bribon with Vineyard Haven another head back in third.

If you have any free time during the holiday season, many Island groups can use volunteer help to accomplish their missions.

The Thanksgiving holiday is a time to be grateful for the abundance of talented people who make the Island their home.

Many return to the Island today and tomorrow to celebrate Thanksgiving. After a filling meal with family and a good night's sleep, now it's time to catch up with your friends.

Birds, particularly big, plucked, juicy roasted turkeys, are very much in the news today.

The town workers are already busy erecting the Christmas decorations around town with the David Healey Mall well decorated with wreaths and bows.

Contributions fell sharply and cash evaporated while debt soared at the Island Affordable Housing Fund between the years 2007 and 2008, audited financial statements show.

"Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives," Elizabeth Benedict, editor, Free Press, 2009, $24.99. As her latest project, best-selling novelist, National Book Award finalist and former Vineyard resident Elizabeth Benedict is the editor of "Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their ...

The West Tisbury Free Public Library this week was named a top national library, receiving a five-star rating by Library Journal's LJ Index of Library Service.

It appears that tenants will be secure at least through January in the four Island towns where rental housing contracts were put in jeopardy two weeks ago, when the Island Affordable Housing Fund could not pay the monthly subsidies.

Defendant Jose Luis Arias in court yesterday. Two men were arrested on felony drug charges on Tuesday as they were stepping off the ferry in Vineyard Haven, the latest in a series of major drug busts over the past year involving suspects either caught selling drugs here or trying to bring large amounts of heroin to the Vineyard.